Unifi Debuts Eco-Friendly Yarns
Unifi Inc. of Greensboro, N.C., and Canadian mill Consoltex Inc. have teamed to launch a line of earth-friendly performance fabrics. Featuring four styles, the new line will be sold...
Americana Stores
Los Angeles real estate developer Rick Caruso unveiled the first phase of stores for his Glendale shopping center, The Americana at Brand, a $320 million mixed-use project now under development. Stores will i...
The Future in Denim Is Far From Blue
Cone Denim is the world’s largest denim producer, supplying scores of blue jeans manufacturers internationally, from Levi Strauss & Co. to Gap Inc. In recent years, the d...
International Textile Merges With Auto Unit
Wilbur Ross’ textile empire continues to grow....
Leonard Leaving CITA
Jim Leonard, chairman of the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements, an interagency group chaired by the U.S. Department of Commerce, is leaving the department. Leonard, who had been w...
MAGIC Leads the Pack in Crowded Vegas Show Scene
LAS VEGAS—When the MAGIC Marketplace opens, the satellites feel it. That was the scenario once again in Las Vegas during the Aug. 28–31 run of MAGIC and the concurrent trade shows....
FIG Dallas Names New Director
The Fashion Industry Gallery (FIG) showroom building in Dallas has named veteran Nordstrom executive Shelli Mers as its new director, replacing Gavin Smith, who was promoted to creat...
Apparel Seized
U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized $14 million in textiles at the Savannah (Ga.) Port of Entry because the goods had false country-of-origin documentation. According to Customs, the seized goods—nearly ...
Retail, Industrial Real Estate Buck Trends
Despite abnormally high fuel prices, a falling housing market and high levels of debt, commercial real estate held its own through the first half of the year. According to real estat...
Stylefile: Falling Forward
With a scorching summer sun bearing down on Las Vegas, buyers gathered inside the Las Vegas Convention Center during the Aug. 28–31 run of the MAGIC Marketplace to view a sampling of exhibito...
Surfing a Crowded Paradise
The sandy shore around Hermosa Beach, Calif., should be something of a surfer’s paradise. It offers five miles of beach—more than enough room for everyone to catch a wave, according to Richard O...
VF Goes to India
Greensboro, N.C.–based manufacturing powerhouse VF Corp. is going to India. The company, which produces apparel under several labels including Lee and Wrangler, has struck a joint venture deal with Arv...
Levi's Open Call
San Francisco–based jeans giant Levi Strauss & Co. is on the hunt for college students to appear in an upcoming ad campaign. The “Levi’s Style Search” will kick off with a tour of several co...
S.F. Designers Struggle to Find Good Resources
SAN FRANCISCO—When it comes to discovering good patternmakers, sample makers and sewing contractors, up-and-coming fashion designers in San Francisco go to extreme measures to root them out....
Fire Destroys Fashion District Stores
Two Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters are recovering from injuries sustained in a Sept. 1 fire that destroyed four wholesale/retail apparel stores in the Los Angeles Fashion D...
